Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 dominates new industry benchmarks at a steep premium

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model tops all six new industry-specific performance benchmarks from Artificial Analysis, covering finance, law, and medicine. However, the cost per task is $3.48, over a hundred times more than DeepSeek V4 Pro's $0.03, despite only a 12-point score difference.